This collection of abstracts is part of a continuing series providing information on recent doctoral dissertations. The 21 titles deal with the following topics: the language, communicative styles, and speech patterns of blacks and non-blacks; the prereading concept acquisition of Spanish-dominant kindergarten children; the self-concept and cross-cultural awareness of Greek-American students; language and reading factors as indicators of achievement in science and social studies for bilingual students; the language, cognition, and social attitudes of black children; the reading vocabulary of Pima Indian students; the oral reading miscues of Mexican-American students; oral communication apprehension in bilingual students; first and second language listening comprehension skills; bilingual and cross-cultural referential communication; curriculum decisions concerning Black English; the communicative competence in English of Spanish-speaking children; the self-esteem, reading facility, and bilingual schooling of Puerto Rican students; the code-switching ability of black students; a Cureton reading, Cuisenaire mathematics, and bilingual program; the use of syntactic cues by monolingual and bilingual subjects; self-concept, adult basic education programs, and the Yankton Sioux; the language acquisition of bilingual children; the effects of instruction on Black English speakers; and the educational and social development of Chinese immigrant students. (FL)